Posts on Tuesday, January 26, 2021
The Jungle Cruise ride at Disney's theme parks in California and Florida, long criticized as as racist, is getting a makeover to remove what the company called 'negative depictions' of some cultures. Disney said on Monday that the river boat attraction would be updated to 'reflect and value the diversity of the world around us.' The Jungle Cruise, which first opened in 1955, has long been accused of having racist overtones in its depiction of some non-Western characters as savages and cannibals.(Snip) Fans of the ride remained ambivalent about the changes to the beloved ride. 'The only “people” who see racism
Is it Joe Biden? Maybe, but many question whether he has the mental capacity and the energy to run the show.
In this post about the Biden administration’s early hard-left initiatives, I speculated that Susan Rice, Ron Klain, or some combination of the two are determining Biden’s domestic policy agenda under pressure from the left. On the foreign policy side, no known policy has yet emerged about which to speculate.
Ric Grenell, who until recently was the acting DNI, believes that Rice is dictating both domestic and foreign policy. Rice is Biden’s White House Domestic Policy Council director, so domestic policy falls under her jurisdiction. Rice’s experience, however,
During a coronavirus press conference on Tuesday, President Joe Biden mumbled and jumbled through a speech, making little sense.
At one point, Biden appeared to be calling out a lawmaker who refused to wear a mask as he incoherently rambled about kissing his ear.
“One Congressman pointed out, he used very colorful term to say, ‘wearing a mask, I tell them to kiss my ear, I’m not going to wear a mask.’ Well, guess what, not very American. The fact is, you want to be patriotic, you’re gonna protect people,” Biden said.
On CNN's Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter touted White House briefings in the age of Biden, who pledged fealty to the truth. "Of course, all of this, a contrast to the Trump years. Also a contrast in the press briefing room, where the new press secretary Jen Psaki, previously a CNN contributor, is promising to restore transparency and truth to the podium." The chyron said "(HOW REFRESHING)." It's "refreshing" that a pile of CNN and MSNBC analysts now make their way into the new Democrat administration, where they are automatically assumed to be bringing the "truth." (Video)
Teachers at one of the nation's leading independent schools were pressed this past month to assess how their classes advanced students' commitments to social justice issues, including the "diversity of sexual identity." Materials from a diversity audit conducted by an outside consultant for the tony Harvard Westlake School in Los Angeles quiz teachers on their compliance with progressive views on six categories of "diversity": racial identity, religious identity, socioeconomic status, "family structure," sexual identity, and disability status. For each topic, teachers were told to ask themselves how they address these identities in their courses, what values students are acquiring
Tulsi Gabbard: Brennans, Schiffs, and Big
Tech Oligarchs More Dangerous than Mob
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Tech Oligarchs More Dangerous than Mob
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Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard blasted former CIA Director John Brennan, House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and big tech “oligarchs” seeking to censor fellow Americans after the January 6 Capitol riot.Gabbard shared a video statement online where she criticized them for trying to take away Americans’ constitutionally protected rights. She said in the video: The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6 to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country. But let’s be clear. The John Brennans, Adam Schiffs, and the oligarchs in big tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally protected rights
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday to phase out the federal government’s use of vehicles that run on gas and replace them with ones that run on electricity.The process is part of Biden’s “Made in America” executive order, which the president claims will create one million additional jobs in the auto industry in America. (Tweet/Video) “The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we’re going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America, by American workers,” Biden told reporters during a briefing Monday announcing his “Buy American” executive order.But replacing an entire federal fleet of hundreds of thousands of vehicles
When Joe Biden signed an order banning any new leases and effectively halting drilling on federal lands for sixty days last week, people in the oil and gas industry were alarmed but not surprised. Biden had made conflicting promises and claims throughout the primary and the general elections about his plans to satisfy the green lobby and the eco-warriors by “reducing carbon” and tackling Big Oil. Once he was safely in office, he started delivering on those promises literally on day one. But that doesn’t mean that this is going to be a smooth ride for the “leave it in the ground” crowd that Biden is courting.
Bad news, Republicans — Democrats figured out The Secret of Citizens United. At least that seems to be the outrage over this report about Joe Biden’s record-breaking advantage in “dark money,” amplified by Fox News today from a Bloomberg report over the weekend. Fox’s Megan Henney leans heavily into the hypocrisy angle of a political party taking money through channels it opposes. Even then, however, it’s clear that this is less singular than the headlines suggest: For years, Democrats have railed against anonymous campaign contributions as a uniquely corrupting political force — even as President Biden benefited from a record-shattering amount of “dark money”
Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the lawmaker tapped to preside over President Trump's impeachment trial, has been hospitalized, his spokesman said.
The 80-year-old Senate president pro tempore was taken to a local hospital and is under observation after he complained that he did not feel well after overseeing the swearing-in of senators as jurors in the trial earlier Tuesday.
"This evening, Senator Leahy was in his Capitol office and was not feeling well," Leahy spokesman David Carle said in a statement.
"He was examined in the Capitol by the Attending Physician. Out of an abundance of caution, the Attending
Eavesdropping can lead to really great stories, just ask Amanda Gorman. On the Tuesday, Jan. 26 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the inaugural poet who inspired the world with her spoken word performance of "The Hill We Climb" during the 2021 Inauguration, shared her experience sitting next to former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. "I remember Michelle Obama, like, being close," the 22 year old recalled. "And she kind of kept yelling at Barack, like, ‘Stop hugging people. Stop getting close to people.'" She continued, "And then when I was done, she kind of like pushed him out
Former Attorney General Eric Holder urged Democrats to “use the power” of their new majority to pack the Supreme Court. In a virtual conference on judicial reform hosted by the Brookings Institution on Monday, Holder said Democrats need to act now that they have control of the White House and Congress.“It is painfully clear, at least to me, that Democrats and progressives are, and have been, uncomfortable with the acquisition and the use of power … Republicans and conservatives never have been,” Holder said. Holder outlined how Republicans allegedly “abused their power” by rushing through the nomination of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to keep control
It turns out President Trump is not officially putting his name behind the “Patriot Party” that was just filed. However, another press release teases a new slogan that shows he will still be moving his MAGA movement forward regardless. In a brand new statement,Trump distanced himself from the Patriot Party, saying the following: “[The] Patriot Party filed a Form 1… listing DJTFP as a participant in purported joint fundraising activities… DJTFP did not authorize the filing of this Form 1, has not entered into any joint fundraising agreement to fundraise through Patriot Party, and has no knowledge of Patriot Party’s activities whatsoever. To be clear: DJTFP has no affiliation
Last Wednesday, after Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, the top official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a memo demanding many deportations to be paused. But on Tuesday, a Texas judge blocked the move. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, who was nominated by former President Trump on February 4, 2020, then confirmed by the Senate on June 3, 2020, issued a temporary restraining order blocking the move for 14 days on Tuesday. Last Wednesday, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security David Pekoske wrote:
Joe Biden Mumbles to Himself, Grapples
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78-year-old Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders on Tuesday as he trashed Americans as racist, morally deprived people. Biden mumbled to himself and grappled with his pen as he sat down to sign the orders. ‘Wait a minute..tryin to put my pen away here,’ Biden mumbled to himself as he struggled to put his pen away for 10 seconds straight. Joe Biden’s mental capacity is rapidly declining yet the media chooses to ignore his obvious signs of dementia.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) voted in favor of a resolution declaring the impeachment trial of former President Trump “unconstitutional” on Tuesday.
The point of order resolution was put forward by McConnell’s colleague from Kentucky, Rand Paul, and effectively forced Republicans to declare on the record whether they consider the impeachment trial constitutional, given that it’s taking place after Trump has left office. The resolution failed after a majority of senators voted against it, meaning the impeachment trial will go ahead as planned.
However, only five Republicans voted against the resolution: Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins
Regeneron's coronavirus antibody drug reduces the risk of getting COVID-19 after exposure by 50 percent, early data suggests.
The treatment prevented 100 percent of the 186 people who got the drug after being exposed to coronavirus from developing symptomatic COVID-19.
It comes a week after Eli Lilly said its similar drug prevented 80 percent of nursing home residents from getting COVID-19.
Newly-elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told NTD that her decision to introduce articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden was motivated by what she claimed was “abuse of power.”
Greene introduced articles of impeachment on Jan. 21, the day after Biden’s inauguration, with her office announcing in a statement that the articles concern the president’s alleged actions involving abuse of power “by allowing his son, Hunter Biden, to siphon off cash from America’s greatest enemies Russia and China.”
(Snip) Greene elaborated on this, saying, “we cannot have a president of the United States who is compromised, and has shown a clear pattern of behavior, which is his using his position of
Senate Republicans revealed Tuesday they are unlikely to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol, as a majority of the conference supported a procedural gambit to dismiss the trial.
After senators were sworn in Tuesday for the impeachment trial that will start in two weeks, Sen. Rand Paul raised a constitutional point of order against the proceedings. The Constitution does not provide Congress the power to impeach and try a former president, Paul argued. “Private citizens don’t get impeached.
A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked an executive order issued by President Joe Biden to halt the deportation of certain immigrants for 100 days.
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, issued a temporary restraining order on Jan. 26, blocking Biden’s policy nationwide for 14 days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenged it in court.
The order is a setback to the Biden administration, which has proposed far-reaching changes, including a plan to legalize about 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States illegally. Last week, the administration also issued an order that halts all U.S.–Mexico border wall construction.
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis is firing back at the White House for claiming that Florida has only used about 50% of the COVID-19 vaccine supply it's received from the federal government.
That controversial statement was made on Monday by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki during a news briefing in Washington.
"I will note, because we're data first here, facts first here, they've only distributed about 50% of the vaccines that they have been given in Florida," Psaki said. "So clearly, they have a good deal of the vaccine." Psaki's comments, calling them "disingenuous."
"We are No. 1 in the country for doses per capita for the top 10 states
A federal judge blocked President Biden’s 100-day deportation “pause” on Tuesday, dealing a blow to one of his administration’s most significant immigration orders.
Judge Drew Tipton, a Trump appointee, granted a temporary restraining order sought by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton. The order will be in effect for 14 days while the judge considers a broader motion by the state for a preliminary injunction.
Paxton, a close Trump ally, immediately celebrated the ruling as a “victory” and declared Texas “the first state in the nation to bring a lawsuit against the Biden (administration).”
“AND WE WON,”
Netherlands rocked by worst civil
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More than 180 people were arrested Monday during the third night of violence in the Netherlands, where rioters appear to have hijacked an anti-lockdown protest to cause destruction across the country. The civil unrest began over the weekend in response to the Dutch government’s strict measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, which includes a newly imposed curfew between 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. But the seemingly peaceful demonstrations turned into chaos as groups of mostly teenagers began organizing on social media to attack public and private properties in different parts of the country.
Images shared on social media showed rioters
President Joe Biden on Monday said he feels an impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump “has to happen.”
But, acknowledging the high threshold required for conviction, he added that he doesn’t believe Trump will be convicted.
“The Senate has changed since I was there, but it hasn’t changed that much,” Biden said, adding that a trial will have a negative impact on his agenda and nominees but that there would be “a worse effect if it didn’t happen.”
The president was speaking to CNN.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday again lacked answers on how many doses of the coveted coronavirus vaccine the US has in reserve, one day after admitting that the Biden administration didn’t know how many shots were on hand. At her daily briefing, Psaki repeatedly danced around requests for hard numbers on the available jabs, at one point punting to an unrelated briefing by President Biden scheduled for later in the day.(Snip) Pressed for an explanation on the holdup, Psaki, as she did Monday, fell back on the excuse that the Biden administration is still less than a week old.
Actor Elliot Page has filed for divorce from wife Emma Portner, new court records show. The 33-year-old “Juno” star—who recently came out as transgender—filed for a contested divorce Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court. Portner, 26, a professional dancer and choreographer, publicly supported Page’s decision, saying she was “so proud.” “Trans, queer and non-binary people are a gift to this world,” Portner said in an Instagram post from Dec. 1. “I also ask for patience & privacy but that you join me in the fervent support of trans life every single day. Elliot’s existence is a gift in and of itself.
CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Department of Public Health officials announced new initiatives Monday to ensure racial equity in distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, after initial data shows low vaccination rates in Black and Latinx communities.
Lightfoot and public health officials released the plan Monday in conjunction with the state moving into Phase 1B of its vaccine distribution, in which an estimated 3.2 million people statewide are eligible for inoculation.(Snip)The plan will target 15 high-need communities based on the city’s COVID-19 vulnerability index to ensure a significant portion of the city’s supply is allocated to those communities.
Twitter banned My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell from the platform after he used his account to spread baseless claims about fraud in the presidential election. Twitter said Tuesday that it permanently suspended Lindell—a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump—because of his “repeated violations” of the company’s civic integrity policy, which it implemented last fall to clamp down on misinformation. Twitter didn’t say which of Lindell’s posts pushed it over the edge. But he had used his personal account and My Pillow’s corporate account in recent months to post and share bogus rumors about widespread election fraud that appeared aimed at undermining
'Lawyer up, and get out': FBI first spurned
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John Paul Mac Isaac, the Delaware computer shop owner who unwittingly came into possession of Hunter Biden's laptop, says an FBI agent initially gave a stern warning to his family when first offered a copy of the explosive evidence about Joe Biden's son: "You better lawyer up and get out of my office."
(Snip) Isaac described what concerned him most about the contents on the laptop, his extensive efforts to get authorities in law enforcement and Congress to pay attention to it and his anger at the news media, Democrats and even security officials who initially accused him of carrying out a Russian disinformation campaign or trying to make money
The Pentagon is eyeing the possibility of using three sites in Saudi Arabia as key staging areas in the event of war in the Middle East, officials said Tuesday in another sign that the U.S. military expects tensions with Iran to remain high for the foreseeable future. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) officials said they have already conducted test runs at the Yanbu port, including the unloading and shipping of cargo from the facility. The military also is examining King Faisal Air Base in Tabuk and King Fahd Air Base in Taif.(Snip) The U.S. recently cut its troop presence in both Iraq and Afghanistan down to 2,500,
Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines is sounding the alarm about President Joe Biden’s early executive orders, especially one that has already killed tens of thousands of jobs.During an interview on Fox News, Daines said Biden killing the Keystone XL pipeline reveals his dirty secret: he’s putting “Saudi Arabia first,” not American workers.“It looks like he cares more about workers in Saudi Arabia than the workers in America,” Daines said on “America’s Newsroom.”“This is going to have a direct effect [on] the pocketbooks of the American people here in the middle of a pandemic,” he added
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden is set to announce a wide-ranging moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on U.S. lands, as his administration moves quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment and address climate change.Two people with knowledge of Biden’s plans outlined the proposed moratorium, which will be announced Wednesday. They asked not to be identified because the plan has not been made been public; some details remain in flux.The move follows a 60-day suspension of new drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters announced last week and follows Biden’s campaign pledge to halt new drilling on federal lands and end the leasing of publicly owned
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), president pro tempore of the Senate, will preside over next month’s impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Leahy said on Jan. 25.
Leahy is 80. Both parties traditionally choose their eldest member to serve in the pro tempore role, which is essentially a backup for the president of the Senate, whenever they gain a majority in the body.
“The president pro tempore has historically presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents,” Leahy said in a statement.
The meltdown started two weeks ago at Politico and apparently has barely slowed down since. Politico invited conservative commentator and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro to guest-edit its daily newsletter, which kicked off a company-wide temper tantrum that even got Erik Wemple’s attention. Nevertheless, Politico’s publisher Robert Allbritton stood by the decision to include Shapiro among its guest editors of its daily newsletter, which also included MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and NBC’s Chuck Todd. The “we” in this statement is a term of art, apparently. The Daily Beast reported last night that over a hundred staffers have signed a protest letter to Allbritton over Shapiro’s one-day gig
Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said that, based on President Joe Biden’s initial executive actions, he believes someone else is actually setting the agenda — Susan Rice.Grenell raised eyebrows earlier this month when he first said he believes that Rice, who was President Obama’s UN ambassador and national security adviser and is now serving as Biden’s domestic policy director, is calling the shots in the current administration.“Susan Rice has been tapped to do domestic policy, and what is really interesting about that is she’s got no experience in domestic policy,” Grenell, who served as acting DNI and U.S. ambassador to Germany under former President Trump, said.
Jane Fonda will receive the Cecil B. deMille Award at 2021 Golden Globes next month.The 83-year-old American actress will be taking the stage at The Beverly Hilton to accept the honor equivalent to the lifetime achievement award at one of Hollywood's biggest nights on February 28.As the trophy is given for'outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment,' Fonda is a more than worthy recipient due to her career in film, television and and being at the forefront of social issues over some 60 years.
Four days before the FBI secured a surveillance warrant against him in fall 2016, Trump campaign adviser Carter Page repeatedly knocked down the key allegations at the heart of the Russia collusion investigation while talking to a government informant who was wearing a wire. Page's unwitting statements of innocence to informer Stefan Halper were never shared with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before it approved four warrants authorizing a full year of surveillance of Page's communications.
Think Bill de Blasio’s dumpster fire of a mayoralty can’t get worse? Think again: Albany is planning to send him more street hookers. Whoopee.
State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat now running for borough president, considers the notice police pay to transsexual streetwalkers to be a pressing civil-rights issue—and so he’s pushing legislation that effectively would make street-walking of all sorts legal.(Snip) Hoylman’s legislation would strike “loitering for the purposes of prostitution” from New York’s penal law. It’s claptrapped up with the usual civil-liberties pieties—the senator calls it the “Walking While Trans” law,
Cancel culture has arrived in Congress in a big way. Well, to be fair, it’s been there for a while now, but Florida Democratic congresswoman Stephanie Murphy is really upping her game in this regard. New proposed legislation from Murphy would prevent anyone who participated in the January protests and riot on Capitol Hill from being eligible for a security clearance. Further, she would impose a similar ban on anyone who participated in any “stop the steal” rally or anyone who knowingly engaged with Q-anon. Given that a security clearance check is required for virtually
Does Joe Know?
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For those of us watching this made-for-TV special in which a totalitarian cabal at the core of the Democratic Party takes over America while we are locked at home, one question arises: Does the mentally impaired Joseph R. Biden know that he was put into the presidency by a small committee* of hard Left operatives, and is currently serving as a figurehead, as all decisions about policy and personnel are made by others?
Or does he think that he really is “the president,” with all that usually entails?
Does he believe that 81 million adult American citizens voted for him after he failed to answer basic questions
Biden's False Catholicism
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The head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has publicly reminded the new President Biden that policies he’s pledged to “in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, gender ‘would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity.’”
Of course this was too much for Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich, who angrily complained that the USCCB dared to issue this “ill-considered statement on the day of President Biden’s inauguration.” The cardinal has been a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, and no doubt thinks that attention on Biden’s lapsed moral positions should be off limits no matter what day it is.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed left-wing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and naturally asked why she didn’t attend Biden’s inauguration. Her reason, she said, was that she and some of her colleagues “don’t yet feel safe around other Members of Congress.” (snip) she said. After all, people have guns there, which is just unacceptable in the District of Columbia. “For individuals who don’t know,” she says, “guns are not allowed in the District of Columbia.” (snip) “guns are not allowed in the District of Columbia” is a shocking revelation to the people who legally own guns there.
The unconstitutional lockdowns provoked by the Chinese Communist Party virus have dragged on for almost a year now, with little sign of the “pandemic” letting up. “Two weeks to slow the spread” and “fifteen days to flatten the curve”—lies from the moment they were uttered, as anyone with an ounce of sense knew—have molted into months and soon enough into years.
Meanwhile, the media has been content to celebrate—excuse me, “mourn”—the mounting death toll attributed to Covid-19 as long as it could damage the Trump administration, now driven from a militarily occupied Washington, D.C.
An opinion writer who frequently contributed op-eds to the New York Times has admitted to being paid well by the Iranian mission to the United Nations but insists that this did not make him an agent of the Iranian government or influence his writing. Kaveh Afrasiabi is currently under arrest, accused of violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). For its part, the New York Times, which still claims to publish “all the news that’s fit to print,” is dummying up, keeping its readers in the dark, and offering no comment.
Liz Cheney’s problems are piling up, according to Politico. The Republican Conference chair has lost the confidence of more than half of the members she purports to lead as the third-highest ranking GOP member in the House of Representatives. She has also garnered a primary challenge and censure back in Wyoming.
“There’s a lot of concern in the conference,” Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, an influential conservative leader, said about Cheney last week.
Scattered throughout the length and breadth of the United States are those who have experienced first-hand the tyranny of despotic rulers and repressive one-party oligarchies. (snip) the oblivious, self-absorbed, puerile wannabe autocrats in the Ruling Class are hell-bent on imposing their dysfunctional version of one-party dictatorial rule on a nation they apparently neither know nor understand. (snip)the current infatuation with themselves by this nation’s elites is about to run headfirst into a brick wall. Their attempt to transform the United States into their hybrid version of a one-party oligarchy under the banner of a new hybrid of socialism is doomed to failure.
Meet Joe Biden, The Job Slayer
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When running for office, President Joe Biden repeatedly proclaimed that his policies would create 18 million jobs. But on his first day in office, Biden took actions that will put millions out of work.
One of the very first executive actions Biden signed was to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that President Barack Obama had blocked for years, which President Donald Trump finally approved. Biden’s reason? To combat the “climate crisis.” While canceling the pipeline won’t have any impact on global temperatures, it will kill thousands of (mostly union) jobs.
As the plumbers and pipefitters union noted:
Triggered: gun store hilariously announces
they ‘don’t have guns or ammo for Biden
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they ‘don’t have guns or ammo for Biden
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Following the inauguration ceremony ushering in Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, Trigger Firearms And Reloading in Jefferson City, Missouri released a statement on Facebook announcing that they will no longer sell firearms or ammunition to Biden supporters. They apologized for the inconvenience and the left is not happy about it. Twitter had a meltdown as hilarity ensued.
“We don’t have guns or ammo for Biden supporters,” the gun store wrote on its Facebook page. “Sorry for the inconvenience.” A number of commenters were not amused and made it known on social media. But conservatives had a field day and celebrated the announcement.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall — who’s the highest taypayer-funded federal employee of all? If you guessed a certain staffer at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, you’ve got good instincts. As it turns out, Anthony Fauci’s a very lucky man. According to Forbes, in 2019, the big guy pulled in $417,608. How many folks do you know making nearly half a mil…at 80 years old? Good thing he’s wearing a mask — he’s got a lot to live for. Still, no one’s perfect:
President Joe Biden has issued more executive orders in his first week in office — not yet complete, as of this writing — than any of his 45 predecessors.As of January 25, 2021, Biden has “issued 33 executive orders, actions, proclamations, memoranda and agency directives,” according to CNN. Twenty-one of these, according to the White House website, are executive orders.President Donald Trump signed four in his first week in 2017; President Barack Obama signed five in 2009; President George W. Bush signed none in his first week in 2001; and President Bill Clinton signed one in 1993.The historical norm for most presidents appears to be no more than a few
They were his attack dogs during the campaign, but now that he's President of the United States, the liberal media were Joe Biden’s lapdogs. And instead of being on guard like they were during the Trump administration, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) came when called and rolled over Monday evening as they gushed about Biden’s two German Shepherds finally moving into the White House.“In the dog house. The President's beloved German shepherds arrive at the White House,” an overly excited Norah O’Donnell announced during the opening tease as she anchored the CBS Evening News.
President Biden's chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, is the highest-paid employee in the entire federal government. The nation's leading infectious disease expert made $417,608 in 2019 and is projected to net approximately $2.5 million in salary from 2019 to 2024, according to Freedom of Information Act requests obtained by Forbes.(Snip)Fauci raked in $3.6 million from 2010 to 2019.(Snip)Fauci, who has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1980, outearned former President Donald Trump ($400,000), former Vice President Mike Pence ($235,100), Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ($270,700), and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ($223,500).
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said Monday he’s not seeking re-election in 2022 — joining at least two other swing-state Republicans who will retire. Portman told the Cincinnati Enquirer that “it has gotten harder and harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress on substantive policy, and that has contributed to my decision.”Portman, 65, is completing his second six-year term. He is a former House member and was White House budget director during former President George W. Bush’s second term.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Monday that a power-sharing agreement in the Senate no longer needs to stipulate that the filibuster rule remain intact after two Senate Democrats confirmed they would not support abolishing it.“I’m glad that two Senate Democrats confirmed they will not vote to end the legislative filibuster,” McConnell stated. “They agree with President Biden and me on protecting the Senate. With this win, we can move forward with a 50-50 power-sharing agreement built on the 2001 precedent”:(Tweet) The filibuster, a rule that requires three-fifths of the Senate, or 60 votes, to close debate on major legislation, had become a point of contention
Four girls aged 12 to 14 who have been arrested over the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl during a fight inside a Louisiana Walmart posted live videos on social media as the attack unfolded. Police say a 12-year-old, two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old were arrested after the older girl died at a hospital after being stabbed inside the Walmart at Lake Charles on Saturday night. The girls allegedly used a knife they had stolen from the store in the fatal attack and were spotted in a kitchen aisle just moments earlier. Footage of the stabbing,
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pepper-sprayed a man who accosted him after he dined at a local pub on Sunday night, according to reports. Wheeler was with former Portland mayor Sam Adams when a man confronted them outside McMenamins Hillsdale Brewery & Public House, according to a police report obtained by The Oregonian. The man reportedly complained that Wheeler and Adams were not wearing face masks while dining. The two had been inside the restaurant’s tent, and Wheeler explained to the man that masks are not required while eating, KOIN reported. Recording with his cellphone, the man, who was maskless, then followed Wheeler to his car.